TRICK OR TREAT OPTION ON SUNDAY HALLOWEEN: -
Since Halloween fell on A Sunday this year our
Ward Primary Presidency ran a "Halloween" event on Saturday
night.
They had all the usual events, a Magician, games, Trick or
Treating.
They even had what the kids thought was a haunted house. In
reality
it was Lehi's Vision of the Tree of Life.
After entering the darkened Gym through a tunnel like entrance the kids
saw a "fountain" (in reality a fan blowing blue and white streamers up
on the air) that formed the river. (The river was a tarp
folded
so it was long and skinny and had silver tinsel scattered over
it)
Dry ice formed the Mists of Darkness. On the far side of
the
river was the Great and Spacious building. Four of the parents
were
recruited to tempt the children of the straight and
narrow.
There was a path marked on the floor and an Iron rod for the children
to
hand on to. The Bishop (Dressed in white) stood at the far end of the
path
by the tree of life. White popcorn balls hung on it and as each
child
made it to the end they were congratulated and given a "fruit" from the
tree of life. The tree was a Christmas tree with white lights on
it. Along the way one of the Primary Teachers walked
with the kids to keep them on the straight and narrow. There were
about 50 kids. Those of us in the great and spacious building
offered
the kids, candy, toys, money, pokemon cards, and just about
everything
we could think of. We started throwing chocolate coins at the
kids
to entice them. Eventually two Missionary Elders joined us as
well,
they positioned themselves close to the Iron Rod. They were
telling
the kids to just reach out and pick up the stuff we had
thrown.
We only "got" one kid an enterprising 10 year old who (without letting
go of the Iron Rod) leaned way far over and picked up the coins.
Feeling quite pleased with him self (and we with ourselves) he
proceeded
to the end. He was told that we wouldn't get the
fruit.
The look on his face was amazing, and unlike the Devil we all
felt
really bad for him. One other young man also picked up some coins
but threw them back at the suggestion of the guide.
All
in all it was an amazing set up. Afterwards the kids were
asking,
what would have happened if they had have gone over. We told then
that they would have drowned in the river. What if we swam asked
another child. Well then you wouldn't have got the things we
promised
you I said. "You mean you lied?" I was asked.
Essentially
I said, that's the way the Devil works, his promises are empty
promises
and won't get you anything good. This small group was silent for
a moment and then said "That's not nice" and I agreed with them.
I don't know who's idea this was but I think our Primary Children
learned
a great deal from this experience. But many thanks to an
resourceful
Primary Presidency. HeatherHALLOWEEN ROAD
RALLY:
- (CLICK HERE)A GAME OF CLUE:
- Murder Mystery Dinner used at Halloween or any time. (click
here)MORE HALLOWEEN
LINKS:
- The
Idea Box / Halloween
Games for the Entire Family /LET'S MAKE A DEAL
HALLOWEEN PARTY: - CLICK
HEREHALLOWEEN
CARNIVAL:
- Our Halloween joint activity is to put on a small carnival for
our Primary kids with little games and prizes. Costume contest, cupcake
walk, bean bag toss, etc. TawnieHALLOWEEN CRAFTS:
- We decided to have each class come up with a craft. So
far,
we are painting empty cans to look like jack-o-lanterns and crafting
with
food-probably making some popcorn hands or cookie ghosts or spoon
pumpkins,
also painting a terra cotta pot to look like a piece of candy
corn.
Then we are going to serve "grave yard dessert". The beehives
want
to come in costume. For an activity, you could turn off the
lights, use flashlights and each take a turn adding a line to a
scary
story? (One person starts the story and each person takes a turn
adding to it.) We also decided as adult leaders to take a treat
and
sing a Halloween carol to each of our YW the Thurs before
halloween.
(Thanks to Lisa for posting that idea!!!) PUMPKIN CAROL
LINKS:
- Halloween
Carols (more originals) / (click on
"back"
button to return to this site)GOOD HALLOWEEN
LINKS: - Halloween
Costume Closet / Homemade
Halloween
Costume Ideas / (click
on
"back" to return to this site) TIN
CAN
CRAFT: - I am doing something fun for Halloween. I have been
saving the short type of can that corn comes in (like Green Giant
niblets-washed
out and label off) then I spray them on the outside with a coat of gray
primer paint, then when that is dry a couple of coats of white spray
paint.
Punch two holes near the top opposite each other. At the
activity,
sponge orange paint all over, then when that is dry, (allowing some of
the white paint to show through) draw on jack-o-lantern faces with a
sharpie
marker. Don't worry about bumps and ridges on the can. Add
a wire handle in the holes you made, tie with some raffia or ribbon and
you are done. You can use any size of can from tuna fish, to soup
to #10 if you have one. Oh, another thing is to add two yellow
buttons
glued on for the cheeks if you want. PUMPKIN TREAT
HOLDER:
- Cut out and paint two egg cups (from a cardboard egg carton)
orange.
Turn one cup over and place it, rim to rim, on the bottom cup.
Tape
to hold in place on the back side. Glue paper eyes and nose to
top
cup; glue paper mouth to bottom cup. Open up pumpkin and fill
with
goodies. (Pack-o-Fun magazine, Fall, 1988)COUNTRY PUMPKIN
SOUP1 onion, chopped¼ cup
margarine
or butter29 ounce can
pumpkin16 ounce can
pumpkin49 ½ ounce
can chicken broth12 ounce can
evaporated
milk¼ teaspoon
salt¼ teaspoon
dried marjoram¼ teaspoon
dried thymefew dashes
bottled
hot pepper sauce.

SPIDER CAKEFollow the
directions
for mixing your favorite box cake mix and for preheating the
oven.
Grease and flour a large Pyrex bowl. BE SURE THE BOWL YOU USE IS
MADE TOB E USED IN THE OVEN. Fill bowl half full with cake
batter.
Put in oven until cake is done. (an easy way to tell if it’s done
is to press your finger in the center of the dough. If dough
springs
back, cake is done.) Cool on rack. Invert bowl to remove
cake.
Frost with dark chocolate frosting. Add black gumdrop eyes and
eight
licorice legs. Press in corn candies for fangs!
(Pack-o-Fun,
Fall 1987)GRAVEYARD POPCORNMake popcorn
according
to directions on package. Line a shoebox with black paper.
Tape the lid upright to one side. Fill the box with
popcorn.
On the lid write, “Here lies old Pop Corn.” (Pack-o-Fun, Fall,
1987)SNOW WHITE’S
APPLE
ON A STRINGSelect large red
apples with firm stems at the store. Tie a 3-foot string on the
stem
of each apple. Team up your guests. Each team will compete
against the others. On “go”, one member of the team will hold the
apple in front of him by the end of the string. The other person,
with his hands behind his back, will attempt to take a bite out of the
apple. Time limit: 4 minutes. The first team to get a
bite, without using their hands or bodies, wins. (Walt Disney
Productions,
1973)GUESSING GAMEAward a prize to
the guest who comes closest to the correct number of buttons, marbles,
grains of corn, coins or any other objects in a jar. (Walt Disney
Productions, 1973)WORD GAMEGive each guest
a pad, pencil and three minutes to list as many words as possible that
can be made up from the letters in the word “Halloween”. A prize
to the winner. (Walt Disney Productions, 1973)TOSS THE BALL GAMEAt one end of a
room, place a real or artificial pumpkin with a hole cut in the
top.
Give each guest or team one or more soft rubber balls, or ping pong
balls,
for tossing into the opening in the pumpkin head. Champion
tossers
win prizes. (Walt Disney Productions, 1973)FORTUNE TELLERMidway in the
party
will be an appropriate time to announce to the guests that it is
fortune-telling
time. Have each guest draw one of the printed questions below
from
a box or jar. That is the question that he or she will ask the
fortune
teller. Give the fortune teller a list of the answers.
Assemble
all the guests in front of the fortune teller’s booth, which can be set
up in a doorway or arch. Make sure all the guests can hear the
questions
and the teller’s answers. After each answer, the teller gives the
asker a regular fortune cookie and asks the person to read the message
aloud for all to hear. The fortune teller can be dressed as a
swami.

Q: Will
I
be happily married?A: Yes. Many
times!Q: Will I be
wealthy?A: Only if you
have money.Q: Will I get
into the movies someday?A: Yes. If
you buy a ticket.Q: Will I
have
many children?A: No. Just one
at a time.Q: How can I
make a room look bright and cheerful?A: Try leaving
it.Q: How can I
attract the opposite sex?A: Drop your
eyes,
and then let the other person pick them up.Q: Where can
I find the true meaning of love?A: Look it up in
the dictionary.Q: Shall I
have
my singing voice cultivated?A: No. Plowed
under
would be better.Q: How can I
become musically inclined?A: Lean on a
piano
sometime.Q: Should I
be on the stage?A: Yes.
There
is one leaving at 9 o’clock. Be under it.Q: What does
my palm tell you?A: Either
your future looks dark, or your hand is dirty.Q: How can I
get into a locked haunted house?A: Try using a
skeleton key.(Walt Disney
Productions,
1973)

HALLOWEEN
DECORATIONSCover all
furniture
with white sheets. This gives the house an un-lived in, deserted
look, like all good haunted houses have. Cut out construction
paper
bats and spiders and hang them from the ceiling and on the walls.
String and a little bit of tape will do the trick. (Walt Disney
Productions,
1973)HALLOWEEN
LIGHTING:Use yellow,
green, blue and red 25-watt bulbs in place of your normal white
bulbs.
This gives a great “low key” lighting effect and makes the rooms look
very
spooky like a horror movie (remember the darker the room the spookier
it
is.) (Walt Disney Productions, 1973)BOO BAT PINCut wing pattern
from black felt. For the head and body, glue two 1” black
pom-poms
to the center of wings. Glue on two ¼” white pom-poms for
the eyes and one orange pom-pom for the nose. Cut name tag from
white
paper, and glue to wings. Attach a pin to back of bat.
(Pack-O-Fun,
Fall 1988)BALLOON-JACK-O-LANTERNBlow up a large
orange balloon and knot the end. Trace patter of feet on brown
paper.
Cut a slit as shown. Insert balloon through slit. Tape feet to
table.
Cut strips of green crepe paper for hair. Tape hair to top of
balloon.
Draw on face with black markers. (Pack-o-Fun, Fall 1988)GHOSTS IN THE
GRAVEYARD(Prep Time: 10
minutes)3 ½ cups
cold milk2 pkgs.
(4-serving
size) JELL-O Chocolate Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling1 pkg. (16 ounce)
chocolate sandwich cookies, crushed. Hint: Crush cookies in
zipper-style
plastic bag with rolling pin or in food processor.

PUMPKIN PLACE MAT
AGAMECut a large
pumpkin
shape from construction paper. Draw lines across pumpkin and
write
the letters HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN separately on each line. Instruct
players
to write as many words as they can from these sixteen letters.
(Pack-O-Fun,
Fall 1988) H
______________A______________L______________L______________O______________W______________E_______________E______________N______________

HALLOWEEN SPIRIT:
The following message is printed on a piece of paper and attached to
goodies
of which you leave anonymously on someone’s doorstep. (I’m sure
your
computer could come up with a cute handout to copy)“GOOD..EVE…NINGIf you do not
wish
a curse on this house, you must make treats and deliver them to a home
in the neighborhood. You have only 1 day. Post the Phantom
on your door until Halloween. This will ward off the curse of the
Phantom from returning to haunt you. Copy this letter and the
Phantom
once and give it with your treats to one home that does not have a
Phantom
posted.SHARE THE SPIRIT
OF HALLOWEEN!HAPPY HALLOWEEN!”LITTLE ORPHANT
ANNIEBy JAMES WHITCOMB
RILEY

Little Orphant
Annie’s
come to our house to stay,An’ wash the cups
an’ saucers up, and’ brush the crumbs away,An’ shoo the
chickens
off the porch, an’ dust the hearth, an’ sweep,An’ make the
fire,
an’ bake the bread, an’ earn her board-an’-keep;An’ all us other
children, when the supper-things is done,We set around the
kitchen fire an’ has the mostest funA-list’nin’ to
the witch-tales ‘at Annie tells about,An’ the
Gobble-uns
‘at gits you Ef you Don’t Watch Out!

Wunst they wuz
a
little boy wouldn’t say his prayers, --An’ when he went
to bed at night, away up-stairs,His Mammy heerd
him holler, an’ his Daddy heerd him bawl,An’ when they
turn’t
the kivvers down, he wuzn’t there at all!An’ they seeked
him in the rafter-room, an’ cubby-hole, an’ press,An’ seeked him
up the chimbly-flue, an’ ever’-where, I guess;But all they ever
found wuz thist his pants an’ roundabout: --An’ the
Gobble-ups
‘ll git you Ef you Don’t Watch Out!

An’ one time a
little
girl ‘ud allus laugh an’ grin,An’ make fun of
ever’ one, an’ all her blood-an’-kin;An’ wunst, when
they was “company,” an’ ole folks wuz there,She mocked ‘em
an’ shocked ‘em, an’ said she didn’t care!An’ thist as she
kicked her heels, an’ turn’t to run an’ hide,They wuz two
great
big Black Things a-standin’ by her side,An’ they snatched
her through the ceilin’ ‘fore she knowed what she’s about!An’ the
Gobble-uns
‘ll git you Ef you Don’t Watch Out!

WITCHES DINNERYou’ll need five
bowls filled separately with the following: Cooked
spaghetti
(worms)Skinned grapes
(eyeballs)Large puffed
grain
cereal (roaches)Dried apricots
(ears)(and any other
squemish item you can think of!)Narrator (dressed
as witch) sits at the head of the table with the bowls in front of
her.
She begins to cackle and talk about creepy crawlers (like worms
and
roaches)_ and parts of another witch that have fallen off (like
eyeballs,
and ears – poor thing)!Each bowl is
passed
separately, and as the guest touches what’s in the bowl, he or she must
identify what’s for dinner! Person with the most correct answers
wins! (Pack-o-Fun, Fall 1987)

HALLOWEEN
SCAVENGER
HUNT: - We did a Scavenger Hunt at Halloween time and everyone dressed
up. We were divided up into groups and each group had a regular
camera
with film. We were given a list of pictures to get, with point
values
attached to each picture (harder pictures got more points). Some
I remember were: picture with as many in your group as possible
in
a phone booth; picture with someone in your group with hat on behind a
fast food counter; everyone in your group in a shopping cart in the
produce
section; everyone with an enclopedia on their heads in the library;
picture
with your group around a head stone dated before 1900; your whole group
going down a slide together, etc. It was
so fun getting the pictures. We had a time limit and points were
deducted if we were late. We then ate dinner while someone ran
the
film to a one hour delevoping place. When the pictures were done
they were hung up around the room so everyone could go around and look
at the silly things we had done. Awards were given out and the
pictures
were given away also.